Motion PerceptionDT2350 Human Perception for Information

Technology

Giampiero Salvi

KTH/CSC/TMH giampi@kth.se

HT 2016

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Literature

Goldstein, E. (2009/2014) Sensation andPerception

I Chapter 8: Motion Perception

Weinschenk, S.M. (2011) 100 Things EveryDesigner Needs to Know About People

I surprisingly I could not find any relevantchapter

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Motion Perception

1. stationary observer, moving stimuli

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Importance of Motion Perception

I detect danger

I perceive behaviour

I disambiguate vision

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Motion AgnosiaExample: 43-years-old woman who suffered a stroke

Zihl et al. (1983,1991)

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Motion as Attention Capture

The three “F”s

1. Fight

2. Flee

3. Freeze

3. makes it harder to differentiate between theanimal and the background

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Explanation

I bird hard to see because same lines asbackground

I movement perceptually organises bird lines intoone object

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Important Even Without Camouflage

I vision is ambiguous

I pattern recognition more difficult thanmovement detection

I research show we perceive shapes moreaccurately if the object is moving

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Real vs Illusory Motion

Illusory motion:

I apparent motion

I induced motion

I motion aftereffects

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Apparent Motion

It is the basis for movies and television

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Induced Motion

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Motion Aftereffects

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Demonstration

http://youtu.be/oNhcpOIQCNs

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Are Real and Apparent Motion DifferentPerceptually?

Visual cortexLarsen et al. (2006)

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Neural Explanation of Motion PerceptionReichardt detector

Werner Richardt (1969)

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Reichardt detector (1969)

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Reichardt detector (1969)

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Reichardt detector (1969)

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Reichardt detector (1969)

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Reichardt detector (1969)

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Motion Perception Cannot Be Explainedwith the Retina

Jeremy walks, Maria looks straight at the window

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Motion Perception Cannot Be Explainedwith the Retina

Jeremy walks, Maria follows him with the eyes

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Motion Perception Cannot Be Explainedwith the Retina

Maria walks in the room

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Information In The Environment

Gibson: disregard the retina

I Jeremy generates a local disturbance of theoptic array

I this happens both if Maria looks straight orfollows him

I when Maria moves it is different: global opticflow

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Global Optic Flow

I in this case everything moves

I this tells Maria that what she sees is stationaryand that she is the one moving

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Problems

I Eye motions: Corollary discharge theory

I Aperture problem (neuron receptive field)

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Taking Eye Motions Into Account

NOTE: the book does not take head movementsinto account

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Corollary Discharge Model

I corollary discharge signal (CDS)

I image displacement signal (IDS)

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CDM: Moving Person

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CDM: Scanning Stationary Scene

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Behavioural Demonstration 1

corollary discharge (eye movement) without imagedisplacement

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Behavioural Demonstration 2corollary discharge (muscle contraction) withoutimage displacement

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Physiological Evidence

I patient with lesions

I did not receive corollary discharge

I everything moved around when he moved hiseyes

Haarmeier et al. (1997)

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Physiological Evidence in Monkeys

“real motion neuron”

Galletti and Fattori (2003)

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Motion of Arrays of Dots

I possible to vary difficulty of perception (degreeof coherence)

I monkeys’ ability to detect direction

I response of neuron in Medial Temporal cortex

Newsome et al. (1989)

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Relationship to Physiology

(Monkeys must be trained for months to indicatethe direction)

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Effect of Lesioning and Microstimulation

I without lesioning they detect motion with1-2% coherence

I with lesioning they need 10-20% coherence

I with stimulation can change direction ofmovement

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Physiology: The Aperture Problem

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Physiology: The Aperture Problem

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Physiology: The Aperture Problem

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Medial Temporal Area: Pooling Responses

Neurons in Medial Temporal Area

I up to 70msec orientation of the bar

I after 140msec real movement

I use object edge detectors in Striate Cortex

Pack and Born (2001)

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Perceiving Biological MotionPoint-light walker

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Point-light Walker Example

http://youtu.be/r0kLC-pridI

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Brain Activation to Biological MotionStimulating Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS)disrupts biological motion perception

Grossman et al. (2005)41 / 44

Beyond the Stimulus: Implied MotionKnowledge based motion perceptionrepresentational momentum (Reed and Vinson, 1996)

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Implied and Apparent Motion

Ramachandran and Anstis (1986)

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